Monday, November 21, 2005
Pollution...
I fear I must start today's Pollution post with with what is undoubtedly an unintentional pun from the BBC
This piece would be silly if it weren't so dangerous.
Do you see the problem? The effort here is to anthropomorphize a creek! Thousands of years of human development to figure out that the rest of the world is not some sort of god and now the government is going to pay to put up signs to move us back in the other direction. Creeks as pets, as I say a very silly notion, save for the all the foundational ideas of our society that it undermines.
Speaking of silly.
Here is a pollution makes monsters story.
I had the usual assortment of world-will-end-tomorrow-from-global-warming-if-you-do-not-transfer-all-the-government's-money-to-me-right-now stories, but I am jettisoning them for this gem.
Tell me again about "slippery-slope" arguments being silly.
If you don't get it, I'm sorry, but that really is funny.Greens fear chemical law dilution
Environmentalists have complained that a key European law on the control of chemicals is being watered down.
This piece would be silly if it weren't so dangerous.
Do you see the problem? The effort here is to anthropomorphize a creek! Thousands of years of human development to figure out that the rest of the world is not some sort of god and now the government is going to pay to put up signs to move us back in the other direction. Creeks as pets, as I say a very silly notion, save for the all the foundational ideas of our society that it undermines.
Speaking of silly.
Here is a pollution makes monsters story.
Scientists have discovered sexually altered fish off the Southern California coast, raising concerns that treated sewage discharged into the ocean contains chemicals that can affect an animal's reproductive system.Let's see here, the phenomena has been known in freshwater fish for a while, but these are the first reports in salt water fish and we assume it's abnormal and based on pollution. Isn't it possible, our prior observations were incomplete, or maybe it's a natural evolutionary development? But that would not make good copy, nor would it attract funding.
So-called intersex animals are not new, but most previous instances were in freshwater. Environmentalists say this is among the first studies to document the effects in a marine environment.
Last year, federal scientists reported finding egg-growing male fish in Maryland's Potomac River. They think the abnormality may be caused by pollutants from sewage plants, feedlots and factories.
I had the usual assortment of world-will-end-tomorrow-from-global-warming-if-you-do-not-transfer-all-the-government's-money-to-me-right-now stories, but I am jettisoning them for this gem.
Make no mistakes, this is not a joke or a put-on. This is the inevitable logical outcome of the environmental thinking of today. This guy sounds peaceful enough, but how long will it be before some nutcase decides he neds to force human extinction instead of seek it voluntarily? And can you imagine anything more tragic that a person ending their life for these reasons?Group wants to see humans extinct
Make no mistake about it, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement isn't anti-child, it's more like anti-human.
The VHE is dedicated to phasing out the human race in the interest of the health of the Earth, founder Les Knight told Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle....
..."Wherever humans live, not much else lives," Knight said. "It isn't that we're evil and want to kill everything -- it's just how we live."
Tell me again about "slippery-slope" arguments being silly.
